Contents
1	Digital Libraries
A Digital Library Is . . .
What Is Digital Information? / Abby Smith
Back to the Future / Richard De Gennaro
The New Cybrarians / Joseph Janes
Libraries as Places to Linger and Mingle / Alex Wright
Research Libraries Ponder: What?s Next? / Deanna B. Marcum
The Digital Library Federation?Membership Has Its Privileges
What Becomes a Leader Most? / Karin Wittenborg
Which Came First? / Lorrie Lejeune
Reference in the Digital Age / Anne G. Lipow
Primary Resources at Your Fingertips / Roy Rosenzweig
Shelve under E / Scott Carlson
Value Propositions / Chris D. Ferguson and Charles A. Bunge
Glossary of Terms Courtesy of the California Digital Library
2	Whom and How We Serve
Growing Up Digital / John Seely Brown
Nothing but Net / Diana and James Oblinger
Chips and Dips: Educating and Serving NextGeners / Stephen Abram and Judy Luther
Net Gains / Steve Jones
Emerging Roles / Gary Marchionini and Hermann Maurer
Origin of the Species / Daniel Greenstein and Suzanne Thorin
Diffuse Libraries / Wendy Pradt Lougee
Digital Collections, Digital Libraries, and the Digitization of Cultural Heritage Information / Clifford Lynch
Intermediate Consumers / Lorcan Dempsey
Advanced Photo Shop / Scott Carlson
Cautionary Tales: Part One / Paul B. Gandel
Cautionary Tales: Part Two / Geoffrey Nunberg
Strength in Numbers / William Y. Arms
Who Uses What? / Amy Friedlander
Turn On before Using / Scott Carlson
The Tipping Point / Jerry D. Campbell
Rethinking Information Literacy / Stanley Wilder
How They View Us: Perceptions of Libraries and Information Resources
Related OCLC Research and Reports
3	The Information-Seeking Landscape
The Public Trust / Robert Putnam
Wagging the Tail / Chris Anderson
Libraries by the Tail / Tom Storey
Phoning Home Alone / Christine Rosen
Keystone Cops / Bonnie Nardi
Our Computers, Ourselves / Sherry Turkle
Managing the Internet / Marylaine Block
Growing Pains / Sharon Gray Weiner
Net Generation Students and Libraries / Joan K. Lippincott
Viewing Patterns / OCLC
?Is What?s Past, Prologue?? / Donald Hawkins
Net Effects / Greg Notess
Famine or Feast? / Paul B. Gandel and Richard N. Katz
From a Distance / Ron Chepesiuk
Libraries Post-9/11
War of Words / Tom R. Arterburn
4	The Market
What We Know Will Hurt Us / Joseph Janes
Internet Searching Gets Thumbs Up / Deborah Fallows
Et Tu, Yahoo? / George Plosker
Fear No Evil / Gary Price
Scanning the Horizon
As Google Goes . . .
Google, the Khmer Rouge, and the Public Good / Mary Sue Coleman
Scribes of the Digital Era / Jeffrey R. Young
Apples and Oranges / Anne Kenney, Nancy Y. McGovern, Ida T. Martinez, and Lance J. Heidig
Web Value / Greg Notess
5	Tools and Technology (Not for Techies Only)
The User Is Not Broken: A Meme Masquerading as a Manifesto
Invasion of the Pod People / Christine Rosen
Striking a Balance / Marshall Breeding
Getting the Goods / Buff Hirko
Where?s Wiki????
Sticky Wikis / Paula Berinstein
Playing Well with Others / Kim Guenther
Caught in the Webbing / Marshall Breeding
Defining Finadability / Peter Morville
Internet Libraries
Billions and Billions of Blogs?
Ten Tips for a Better Weblog / Rebecca Blood
Blog Beginnings / Rebecca Blood
The Blog Files / Lee Rainie
Coming Soon: Doing Research with Your Cell Phone / Scott Carlson
The Eyes Have It / Lori Bell and Tom Peters
The Future of eBooks / Lynn Silipigni Connaway
iPods Add Wow Factor / Michael Stephens
More on Pod People / Sheri Crofts, Jon Dilley, Mark Fox, Andrew Retsema, and Bob Williams
Wireless Libraries and Wireless Communities: Why? / Stephen Abram
IM the Walrus / Aaron Schmidt and Michael Stephens
Best Practices for IM
Libraries That IM
Hooking Up . . .
6	Ops and Materials
I Am the Very Model of Computerized Librarian
Starting Out / Abby Smith
Digitization Project Planning Tips and Tools
Principles for Good Digital Collections / Timothy W. Cole
Just Say the Word / Karen Coyle
Starting a Digitization Project
Scoping the Project
Image Capture
Technical Infrastructure/Image Creation
Factors to Consider When Choosing Digital Formats / Caroline Arms and Carl Fleischauer
Access Issues
Digitization = Access / Abby Smith
Going Where the Users Are / Jeffrey Penka
Chatting It Up / Buff Hirko
Making Chat Work Better / Steve Coffman and Linda Arret
But Can You Copy It?
Copyright Need-to-Know Basics / June Besek
7	Digital Preservation
Digitization Is Not Preservation?at Least Not Yet / Abby Smith
Thirteen Ways of Looking at . . . Digital Preservation / Brian Lavoie and Lorcan Dempsey
Strategies for Preserving Digital Content / Abby Smith
Safeguarding Digital Assets
The key to LOCKSS: An interview with Victoria Reich, Director LOCKSS Program / Chris Ferguson
8	What?s Next?
Reinventing the Library / Geoffrey Freeman
The Third Law / Michele Cloonan and John Dove
Keeping It Open / Nancy Kranich
A Modest Proposal / Roy Tennant
Funding for Digital Libraries
Looking for Bucks / Bill Becker
Getting the Right Stuff / Jill Ann Hurst
Tips for Managing E-Resources
Index